ECO2M: A TOUGH2 Fluid Property Module for Mixtures of Water, NaCl, and CO2, Including Super- and Sub-Critical Conditions, and Phase Change Between Liquid and Gaseous CO2

LBNL-4590E ECO2M: A TOUGH2 Fluid Property Module for Mixtures of Water, NaCl, and CO 2 , Including Super- and Sub-Critical Conditions, and Phase Change Between Liquid and Gaseous CO 2 Karsten Pruess Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 April 2011 This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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